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Fantasia International Film Festival, 2023

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Quinn Armstrong / Survival Skills
Festival Coverage Interviews

Interview: Quinn Armstrong on his film “Survival Skills” | Awesome Friday!

Friday, 28 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

Survival Skills is a film I haven’t been able to stop thinking about since I first watched it. A biting

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PVT Chat
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘PVT Chat’ can’t decide whether it’s honest or sleazy | Awesome Friday!

Thursday, 27 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

The film crosses back and forth over the lines, from some moments that ring incredibly true and honest to others

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Free Country
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Free Country’ is a stark, engaging mystery | Awesome Friday!

Thursday, 27 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

Each lead actor is great, but Felix Kramer, as Markus, steals the show. He’s a brute, but he might be

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Survival Skills
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Survival Skills’ is way more than just a weird VHS nostalgia trip | Awesome Friday!

Wednesday, 26 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

It would be easy to write Survival Skills off as a cheap nostalgia bid or a wacky experiment, and it would have

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A Witness Out of the Blue
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘A Witness Out of the Blue’ is a solid action thriller | Awesome Friday!

Wednesday, 26 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

Opening with a gang of thieves storming a jewellery store only to be cornered by the police as they finish

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Climate of the Hunter
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Climate of the Hunter’ is dark, weird, stylistic throwback | Awesome Friday!

Tuesday, 25 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

To reiterate, this movie is deeply weird. It’s also shallow. Climate of the Hunter features several monologues from Wesley, stories of

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Bleed With Me
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Bleed With Me’ is a slow, but sure, burn set in the Canadian wilderness | Awesome Friday!

Monday, 24 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

The remote setting of the story exacerbates all of this; the tiny family cabin set deep in the woods, further

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The Columnist
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘The Columnist’ is a revenge story we’ve all fantasized about | Awesome Friday!

Monday, 24 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

Katja Herbers (probably best known for her recurring role on HBO’s Westworld) is fantastic as Femke, particularly in the scenes where she

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Perdida
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Perdida’ is a satisfying thriller

Sunday, 23 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

Perdida will likely draw comparisons to Hitchcock, Fincher, and Bong Joon-ho, which are rightly deserved. The story will keep you on

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Crazy Samurai Musashi
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Crazy Samurai Musashi’ is a technical marvel, but exhausting | Awesome Friday!

Saturday, 22 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

Spielberg and Cuarón use them frequently. Martin Scorsese probably produced the most famous long-take scenes in Goodfellas, and Park Chan-wook produced one

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Special Actors
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Special Actors’ is a Wacky Good Time | Awesome Friday!

Friday, 21 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

Imagine being an aspiring actor and suffering an anxiety affliction so severe that you collapse every time you are nervous

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Feels Good Man
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Feels Good, Man’ asks if Pepe the Frog will ever be good again | Awesome Friday!

Friday, 21 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

The sad truth is that when you upload something to the internet, you effectively lose control of that thing. This

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The Righteous
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: The Reckoning is a Disappointment | Awesome Friday!

Thursday, 20 August, 2020Monday, 18 September, 2023By Matthew

Set in the 1600s, Charlotte Kirk plays Grace, a woman who has just lost her husband to the plague currently

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Clapboard Jungle
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Clapboard Jungle’ takes a personal journey through the indie film business | Awesome Friday!

Thursday, 20 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

McConnell speaks to other indie filmmakers and producers, some well-known and some not so much, and they all have one

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Monster Seafood Wars
Festival Coverage Reviews

Fantasia 2020: ‘Monster Seafood Wars’ is a homage to the silliest of Kaiju movies, but it’s not totally silly | Awesome Friday!

Saturday, 1 August, 2020Saturday, 23 September, 2023By Matthew

If you like Kaiju movies, particularly the Shōwa Era Godzilla films, then you should give Monster Seafood Wars a try. If you

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